Deem ye the Greeks our enemies to be gone?/ Or any Greekish gifts can you suppose / Devoid of guile? Is so Ulysses known? |
—The Second Book of Virgil’s Æneid, ll. 58–60 |
Henry Howard,
Earl of Surrey |
The Poetical Works
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Sixty selections from the Tudor poet who was the first practitioner of blank verse in English.
Bibliographic Record
Contents
BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND Co., 1880
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011
Songs and Sonnets |
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Description of the restless State of a Lover, with Suit to his Lady, to rue on his dying Heart |
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Description of Spring, wherein every thing renews, save only the Lover |
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Description of the restless State of a Lover |
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Description of the fickle Affections, Pangs, and Slights of Love |
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Complaint of a Lover that defied Love, and was by Love after the more tormented |
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Complaint of a Lover rebuked |
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Complaint of the Lover disdained |
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Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine |
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The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty |
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A Complaint by Night of the Lover not beloved |
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How each thing, save the Lover in Spring, reviveth to Pleasure |
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A Vow to love faithfully, howsoever he be rewarded |
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Complaint that his Lady, after she knew his Love, kept her Face always hidden from him |
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Request to his Love to join Bounty with Beauty |
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Prisoned in Windsor, he recounteth his Pleasure there passed |
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The Lover comforteth himself with the Worthiness of his Love |
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Complaint of the Absence of her Lover being upon the Sea |
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Complaint of a dying Lover refused upon his Lady’s unjust mistaking of his Writing |
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Complaint of the Absence of her Lover, being upon the Sea |
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A Praise of his Love, wherein he reproveth them that compare their Ladies with his |
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To his Mistress |
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To the Lady that scorned her Lover |
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A Warning to the Lover, how he is abused by his Love |
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The forsaken Lover describeth and forsaketh Love |
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The Lover describeth his restless State |
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The Lover excuseth himself of suspected Change |
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A careless Man scorning and describing the subtle Usage of Women toward their Lovers |
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An Answer in the behalf of a Woman. Of an uncertain Author |
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The constant Lover lamenteth |
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A Song written by the Earl of Surrey of a Lady that refused to dance with him |
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The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart |
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The Means to attain happy Life |
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Praise of mean and constant Estate |
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Praise of certain Psalms of David. Translated by Sir Thomas [Wyatt] the elder |
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Of the Death of Sir Thomas Wyatt |
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Of the Same |
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Of the Same |
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An Epitaph on Clere, Surrey’s faithful Friend and Follower |
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On Sardanapalus’s dishonourable Life and miserable Death |
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How no Age is content with his own Estate, and how the Age of Children is the happiest if they had Skill to understand it |
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Bonum est mihi quod humiliasti me |
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Exhortation to learn by others’ Trouble |
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The Fancy of a wearier Lover |
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A Satire against the Citizens of London |
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A description of the restless State of the Lover when absent from the Mistress of his Heart |
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Ecclesiastes |
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Chapter I |
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Chapter II |
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Chapter III |
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Chapter IV |
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Chapter V |
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A Paraphrase of Some of the Psalms of David |
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Proem |
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Psalm LXXXVIII |
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Psalm LXXIII |
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“Though, Lord, to Israel” |
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Psalm LV |
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Psalm VIII |
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The Second Book of Virgil’s Æneid |
The Fourth Book of Virgil’s Æneid |
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Primus: “My fearful hope from me is fled” |
Secundus: “Your fearful hope cannot prevail” |